Matteo Dian

I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna. Previously I held research and teaching positions at the University of Bologna, University of Oxford; London School of Economics and Political Science, the European University Institute and Ca' Foscari University in Venice. I earned my PhD at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Italian Institute of Human and Social Sciences) in Florence. I am author of The Evolution of the US-Japan Alliance: The Eagle and the Chrysanthemum (Elsevier, Oxford 2014) Contested Memories in Chinese and Japanese Foreign Policy (Elsevier, Oxford 2017)and New Regional Initiatives in China's Foreign Policy. The Incoming Pluralism in Global Governance (Palgrave, 2018, with Silvia Menegazzi) and  La Cina, gli Stati Uniti e il Futuro dell'Ordine Internazionale (Bologna, Il Mulino 2021). My research focuses on International Relations theory, Security in East Asia, Japanese and Chinese Foreign policy, and US foreign policy in the Asia Pacific region.